Systematic Theology

Proverbs as a Members Manual

By Jonathan Leeman | 5.3.2010

Tim Keller has a good post on the value of reading Proverbs in the context of the church community here.

To continue the conversation, it occurs to me that the book of Proverbs would not make for a bad church members' manual either:

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